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Show I HUERTA PLANS TO LEAVE MEXICO CITY Prepare! to Make Laat Stand at Puebla, Midway Between the Capital and Vera Cruz Washington, May 13. Thhf General Gen-eral Huerta prepwing for a crisis in his dictatorship has long been plan-, nlng to leave Mexico City with hia troops and make a laat stand at Puebla, Pu-ebla, midway between Mexico City had Vera Cms was understood today to hare been told Prealdent Wilson last night by Nelson O'Shaughnessy, former charge of the American embassy em-bassy in the Mexican capital. The president, it Is said,, was In-formed In-formed that Huerta had picked Puebla Pu-ebla for his last refugo In case rebel assailants get too close to Mexico-City, Mexico-City, and that lato developments in the revolution hod caused' him already al-ready to begin fortifying and provisioning provi-sioning Puebla. Huerta Will Not Resign Mr. O'Shaughnessy is said to bave told the president that Huerta had no intention ot resigning but that tho Mexican dictator realized that his reglmo could not Btand long. At Puobla, according to plans snld to havo been determined on months ago, ho would fight rather than consent to elimination. Realizing that ho eventually must bo deposed, Huerta, It Is said, desires de-sires to acquire ns much glory as po'sslblo beforo tho inevitable happens. Dictator Has Few Troops Mr. O'Shaughnessy is sn!d further to havo told tho president that the number of troops which Huerta has at his command Is greatly1 exaggerated exagger-ated and that ns a mattor ot fact, they number only 4000 to C000 men. Neither Zapata nor Villa wnuld have any great difficulty In taking t the city, Is understood to bo tho view Mr. O'Slmugnossy expressed. His Information Is along tho lino of other reports reaching ( the government gov-ernment within tho last few weeks, Further Information from theso sour- p ces is that Huerta has been shipping gold abroad, In contemplation of his ultimate exile. |